The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . , at four hundredsquare miles, so the total value of the harvest mustbe very great. The inhabitants —as to a great extentdo their animals—subsist chiefly on dates, and in spiteof the law of the Koran, make brandy thereof. To realize the enormous quantity of dates grown atTafilalt, says the writer quoted, one must see theoasis. The palms, planted so thickly and so^^^ closely together as to obstruct ones vision inevery direction, form a gigantic forest, to pass throughwhich by the narrow lanes is bewildering . . The grovesof the finest palms a
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . , at four hundredsquare miles, so the total value of the harvest mustbe very great. The inhabitants —as to a great extentdo their animals—subsist chiefly on dates, and in spiteof the law of the Koran, make brandy thereof. To realize the enormous quantity of dates grown atTafilalt, says the writer quoted, one must see theoasis. The palms, planted so thickly and so^^^ closely together as to obstruct ones vision inevery direction, form a gigantic forest, to pass throughwhich by the narrow lanes is bewildering . . The grovesof the finest palms are in the direction of Abu Aam,nearly all enclosed in high walls. It is these dates, theBu Skri and Bu Kfiis, that are most prized, and lusciousthey are indeed, though they spoil by traveUing. Thedates were ripe at the time of my visit, in only other articles of importance produced are thefamous Filali skins, and haiks made of the fine local Pellovv, original edition, p. 119; see p. 64. ^ Tafilet, p. 292. ^i^wr- ^T??^p«wgf^.V ;|. ^?« 55 *
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